LONDON – The Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on North Korea rejected the possibility of cutting British aid to the DPRK at a meeting in the House of Lords on Tuesday morning.

Despite a North Korean defector’s suggestion that aid helped the regime survive the famine in the 1990s, Lord Alton of Liverpool told NK News that he “very emphatically disagree(d) that food should be used as a weapon of war.”

“I do not believe that you starve people into submission,” he said, “even though the regime might have siphoned off some of the food we know some of the